Acquisition of carbapenem resistance in multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates of sequence type 11 at a university hospital in China

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 241-243

  Liu, Yang ^a   Li, Xiang Yang ^b   Wan, La Gen ^a   Jiang, Wei Yan ^b   Yang, Jing Hong ^b   Li, Fang Qu ^b  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL AND YUYING CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA methyltransferase; Carbapenem resistance; Klebsiella; Multilocus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; BETA LACTAMASE SHV; BETA LACTAMASE SHV 12; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACC(6') LB CR GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M GENE; BETA LACTAMASE SHV 12 GENE; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1 GENE; CHINA; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRS1 GENE; RMTB GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARBAPENEMS; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTEGRONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84877815881     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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